wrench

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃ/    美 /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
    — With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
  2. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
  3. A trick or artifice. obsolete
  4. Deceit; guile; treachery. obsolete
  5. A turn at an acute angle. obsolete
  6. A winch or windlass. archaic
  7. A screw. obsolete
  8. A distorting change from the original meaning.
  9. A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes. Canada,Philippines,US
  10. An adjustable spanner used by plumbers. UK
  11. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
  12. In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
  13. means; contrivance obsolete
    — But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace
  14. In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
动词 v.
  1. To pull or twist violently. transitive
    — With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
  2. To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. transitive
    — Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
  3. To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent. transitive
  4. To rack with pain; to make hurt or distressed. transitive
    — And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out?
  5. To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. transitive
  6. To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench. transitive
    — The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.
  7. To violently move in a turn or writhe. intransitive,obsolete
  8. To tighten with or as if with a winch. obsolete,transitive
    — [S]end me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.
  9. To thrust (a weapon) in a twisting motion. obsolete,transitive
  10. To disarm an opponent by whirling their blade away. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

wrenches plural wrenche alternative,obsolete wrinche alternative,obsolete wringe alternative,obsolete wrenches present,singular,third-person wrenching participle,present wrenched participle,past wrenched past wrenche alternative,obsolete wrinche alternative,obsolete wringe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English wrench, from Old English wrenċ, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wreng- (“to turn”). Compare German Rank (“plot, intrigue”).
词源 2
From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wrenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrankijan, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijaną. Compare German renken.
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